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Climate Change and its Impact on Preservation Management of Archaeological Sites

21 March 2012

Dr Stavroula Golfomitsou, Lecturer in Conservation Studies at UCL Qatar, is to participate in the upcoming Round Table at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, entitled Climate Change and its Impact on the Preservation Management of Archaeological Sites.

Climate change is the single most significant environmental
threat to the planet, and thereby the lives of future generations.
However, its importance as a threat to cultural heritage assets is less
certain. Consequently, site managers are faced with the challenge of how
to respond to this issue, without clear information about the relative
significance of its risks. This event attempts to address this
issue.

The round table is organised by the Initiative for Heritage
Conservancy in collaboration with ICCROM (the International Centre for the
Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property), the University
of Kent, the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) and UCL Qatar. It will be a think tank meeting comprising 12
speakers and approximately 10 discussion partners, all of which are known
experts in their field.

The focus of the meeting is to discuss the potential
practical implications of climate change on cultural heritage, and to compare
the uncertainties in these predictions with those of other risks that commonly
threaten archaeological sites. During the meeting the various
presentations will serve to establish baseline knowledge of past climatic effects
and risks to cultural heritage; outline current prediction models and
management tools; and examine the implications of climate change in different
geographic contexts. Finally, the aim is to assemble practical advice for
managers in the field, to help them decide how significant climate change
effects are likely to be in their specific context, and plan accordingly.

The meeting’s outcome will be published in 2013 as part of
ICCROM Conservation Studies Series.